The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.